The Khronos Group that maintains the OpenGL API launched two new flavors of the specification at the Games Developer Conference (GDC) this week. OpenGL 4.0 is designed to update the API to DirectX ...

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With one of the world's biggest game developers announcing its plans to go cross-platform earlier this week, now might be an opportune moment to introduce a new version of the most popular ...

We recently had the chance to sit down with some folks at NVIDIA to discuss high performance graphics APIs (Application Programming Interfaces). With all of the noise recently surrounding AMD’s Mantle ...

For example, although it might be reasonable to assume that OpenGL 3.x is roughly equivalent to Direct3D 10 and DX11 equivalent to GL 4.0, the OpenGL Architecture Review Board (the ARB) is still ...

After our story here where we said that Larrabee doesn't need DirectX, Intel was fast to react and state that Larrabee will support both DirectX and OpenGL. Microsoft is about to announce DirectX 11 ...

In line with its regular update cadence, the Khronos Group — the organization behind specs like OpenGL, OpenCL and WebGL — today launched updated specs for its OpenGL specs for 3D desktop applications ...

At its Siggraph 2014 booth, Intel is showing off one of the first public demos of DirectX 12 and Direct3D 12 -- and the improvement over older graphics APIs, such as DirectX 11, is really quite ...

Developer 4A Games has released Linux and SteamOS versions of its first-person shooters Metro 2033 Redux and Metro: Last Light Redux. Both games support Steam Play, so if you've already bought them ...

At its Siggraph 2014 booth, Intel is showing off one of the first public demos of DirectX 12 and Direct3D 12 -- and the improvement over older graphics APIs, such as DirectX 11, is really quite ...